Re: Only boots with CD in drive

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From: Keith (keith_at_nospam.freeserve.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:04:49 -0000

"IC" <me@me.com> wrote in message
news:9MDTd.377$905.261@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
>I have just reinstalled Windows XP Pro (currently SP1) following a HDD
> failure. The new 80 MB drive is partitioned as 20/60MB and Windows is
> installed on the 20MB partition (drive C).
>
> My problem is that I get a "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and
> press
> enter" message. If I then put the XP installation CD in the drive and
> press
> enter, Windows will boot normally. I have tried using the Recovery console
> to run Fixboot and Fixmbr, but these have had no effect. The system is
> obviously looking for some boot files on the CD rather than HDD, but I
> don't
> know why, or how to fix it.
>
> Boot.ini is looking to multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS which
> seems OK, but obviously something isn't right.
>
> Any ideas will be much appreciated.
>
> --
> Ian
>

The new drive may need jumper settings changed

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